Wednesday, April 27, 2011

I'm a Loser!

In so many great ways I am a loser!!!! I am finally losing weight! the inches coming off were great but the scale is moving.
I have been trying different workouts, keeping busy, remembering my vitamins, drinking more water and just enjoying the nice weather. There really never is a dull moment in my life and I like it that way.

I wanted to talk to you guys for a second about pushing yourself. No one can do it for you. Sure people can motivate you. but you have to find the will in YOURself to want to push yourself.

A lot of us find it harder to lose weight now that we arent youngens anymore. Its just a proven fact. The older we get the harder it is to lose weight. There is not a day you can simply say- "Im just goin to walk today" If your goal is to lose weight you truly have to dig deeper and find what is going to push you. Do you want to live longer for you kids? Turn on your spouse? Fit into that summer bikini? Get off meds?? You have to find what drives you and go for it. I have always tried to be motivation to my friends and fellow workout partners, I do my best. but I cant do the workout for them. I cant get them to get moving. They need to find their drive FIRSt and then join me. You cant think of it as a chore. You have to enjoy yourself. You have to LOVE what you do and want to do more. I try new things all the time in workouts. I let nothing scare me in fitness. I love trying it all. If I dont like it, I try something else.
Shaun T has a new workout...Asylum. I am waiting for the right moment to purchase it (when I have money) and i will be attempting another Insanity type workout. I want to challenge myself everyday. I want to know what I am capable of.

I dont really worry about the scale anymore. I look at myself in the mirror everyday and I know I am doing SOMETHING and I know I am doing my best and giving it my all-that is a moment to have people!!! Trust me. When you can look in the mirror and you can look back at yourself and say WOW I achieved greatness today...You have reached your goal.

I will be 30 this year. It takes 10 times more work to achieve my goals. But I dont quit because I didnt reach them, I try harder. I refuse to let myself go. I refuse to give in.

Attitude is everything. So what if you slip up and eat some cookies or drink a Coke...WHO CARES! As long as you get right back up and do something to earn that treat. You cant keep digging yourself a deeper hole and expect to jump right back out.

You got yourself to a place you didnt want to be over time. Its going to be time before you can get back there again. but YOU have to start. YOU have to do the work and YOU have to WANT it!!!!

I hope this blog got into some of your heads. Please feel free to share my blog with others. I want to help you in the best way I know how..

xoxo
Channy

Monday, April 18, 2011

I am a Horrible Blogger.

I have come to terms with a lot of things in my life. I will never be taller, I will never have perfect teeth, I will always have laundry and I will always be a mom. One thing I KNOW I can change is my inability to stay on top of my blog.

It's such an easy task...unfortunately I havent quite figured out how to incorporate it into my everyday events...BUT I WILL!!!

So I suppose I need to start from scratch with my followers. Or maybe not! A lot of you see me on FB and see my crazy amounts of status updates with Zumba involved. Its my new obsession. I go in waves. I obsessed over Kickboxing, Spinning, Step, Insanity, P90X, and now its Zumba.
Now, for those of you who have not tried a class...DO IT! It is such an amazing time! It's fun and it works! I burn between 650-1000 calories each workout.
Yesterday I did another Zumbathon. 2 hours of non-stop Zumba and I burned 1,555 calories! Which assisted me in dropping another pound.

I stuck with the same instructor so I was able to learn all the moves. Now that I know the moves I am able to work harder on holding in my abs, doing perfect squats, giving it my all.
I have become quite the source of motivation in that class and I often get asked "Are you an instructor"

I will be.

I have also been doing Kettlebell workouts. This is fun!!!! You can actually feel your muscles working in this workout. Its not long, (20 minutes) and you get to sweating about 3 minutes into the workout. I suggest giving it a try. I will let you know the results when I get to the 6th week. I havent been doing it steady like my husband only because I attend zumba and Powerflex (weight training) at the gym. So the days I do Kettlebell are my off days from the gym. But its definitely great!!

A few things I need to improve on in my daily life: remembering my vitamins. I really need to feed my body after these insane workouts and obviously before. I have to figure out a way to remember.

Walking more. I know I spend a lot of my days working out. Unfortunately I still feel the need to walk. There is nothing like a nice walk for your evening workout. Especially after dinner. You have to get your metabolism pumping so you can burn more calories while you are sleeping. I started the evening walks when I got my pup Roscoe, but once we got the new pup and the weather was cold. I stopped. Poor puppy! :( and I KNOW I need to do it.

Smoking. This is the hardest. I know I need to quit. But the problem is, I dont feel ready. I imagine how much harder I would be able to workout if I didnt smoke. I am already busting out my workouts but imagine how much stronger, faster and farther I could go if I didnt smoke. I guess I have to figure that one out...

so I wanted to apologize to my fellow fitness fanatics for not staying on top of this blog. I know I said I would be here for you for questions, concerns and motivation!!! I am going to try harder!!!!

Remember: I am here for you! Tell me, what was your workout like today? What do you want to accomplish? Do you have any questions??